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Katie MacLeod

Freelance Journalist and Travel Blogger

Writer, Journalist, Blogger

https://www.kathrynmacleod.org/

https://storiesmysuitcasecouldtell.com/

[email protected]

Full Member (Accredited October 2024)

Biography

Katie MacLeod is an award-winning journalist and blogger from the Scottish islands. Having travelled to 22 countries and lived in three – including a year spent in Tianjin, China – she is now based in New York City.

As a journalist, her travel writing has been published in BBC Travel, Buzzfeed, AFAR, Roads and Kingdoms, and more. She has appeared as a guest speaker on STV News and BBC Radio 5 Live, and her photography has been seen in BBC Travel, Roads and Kingdoms, and Scottish Islands Explorer.

Katie is also the founder of the award-winning travel blog Stories My Suitcase Could Tell, which was named ‘Best Travel Blog’ by Cosmopolitan Magazine in 2014, and has since featured in the likes of National Geographic Traveller, Buzzfeed, Wanderlust Magazine, and AFAR.

She was listed as one of Scotland’s Top 100 Women in Tourism in 2020, and has been shortlisted for multiple industry awards over the years. Most recently, she was awarded Gold for Travel Blogger of the Year at the 2024 AITO Travel Writer of the Year Awards.